Johan van Benthem

Professor Johan F.A.K. van Benthem (1949) has been University Professor at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) since 1 September 2003, with research which focuses on logic and its applications in linguistics, philosophy, computer science and cognitive science.

Photo: Jeroen Oerlemans

His role is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration between the disciplines
of the arts, social sciences and natural sciences in the fields of information
science and cognitive science. Cognitive science is a young discipline involving
scholarship in a range of fields including language, perception, attention,
reasoning, thinking, learning and communication.

Van Benthem is an internationally recognised researcher in the field of logic
and its applications. He graduated cum laude at the University of
Amsterdam in 1972 and 1973 in Mathematics and Philosophy, and went on to obtain
his doctorate here in 1977. He taught Symbolic Logic at the University of
Groningen from 1977 to 1986, and became professor of Mathematical Logic and
Philosophy of Mathematics at the UvA in 1986. He has also occupied the Bonsall
Visiting Chair of Humanities at Stanford University, California since 1991. Van
Benthem has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1991, and of the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) since 1992. He was founding
director of the Institute for Logic Language and Computation (ILLC), the
research institute at the UvA which provides a platform for collaboration
between scholars in the fields of Logic, Informatics and Philosophy.

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